The works of the Reverend and learned John Lightfoot D. D., late Master of Katherine Hall in Cambridge such as were, and such as never before were printed : in two volumes : with the authors life and large and useful tables to each volume : also three maps : one of the temple drawn by the author himself, the others of Jervsalem and the Holy Land drawn according to the author's chorography, with a description collected out of his writings.

VERS. I.

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Paul.

WHO was also called Saul. He had a double name according to his double relation: the Hebrew name Saul, as he was an Hebrew: The Ro∣man name Paul, as a Roman.

It was common in the Jewish nation, that among the Jews they went by a Jewish name, but among Heathens by another. That is, either by the same name turned into the Heathen Language; as Tabitha to the Jews, was Dorcas to them that spake Greek, and Thomas to the Hebrews, was Didymus to the Greeks; and perhaps Silas to the Jews was Tertius to the Romans, Rom. XVI. 21. from 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Shalosh, Three, and Jason was Secundus, compare Rom. XVI. 21. with Acts XIX. 4. Or they went by some different name; As Herod in Luke, Act. XII. 1, 2. is Agrippa in Josephus: and John is also Mark, Act. XII. 12.

Hence the Gloss upon Maimonides; a Perhaps he hath two names, viz. a 1.1 Jewish and that whereby 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 those that are not Jews, do call him. And that passage, The b 1.2 Isra∣elites without the Land of Israel have names like the names of the Gentiles. Yea, hearken to what they say in the same Tract c 1.3 concerning Jews dwelling even in the Land of

Israel; Perhaps he hath two wives, one in Judea, another in Galilee. And perhaps he hath two names, one in Judea, another in Galilee. If he subscribes his name, whereby he goes in Judea, to put away her who is in Galilee, or the name whereby he goes in Galilee, to put away her, who is in Judea, it is not a divorce.

It is no wonder therefore, if Saul who was born out of the Land of Israel, and free of the City of Rome, had a Roman name joyned with his Jewish. And it deserves observation, that he being now made the Apostle of the Gentiles, always calls himself by his Gentile name, by his Jewish never: and that Luke prosecuting his acts, calleth his name Saul, while the scene of the story is among the Jews, but Paul, while it is among the Heathen.

Notes

• a 1.1

  In Cerushin, cap. 3.
• b 1.2

  Hieros. Gitti••, fol. 43. 2.
• c 1.3

  Fol. 45. 3.